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Friday, December 14, 2012

Apopka Christmas Parade: It's a Star Spangled Christmas

     The Apopka Family Learning Center (AFLC) participated in the Apopka Parade on Saturday December 8th. The theme of the parade was "Star Spangle Christmas". Our float was designed and decorated by the AFLC staff. We had 3 Christmas trees, a blue tree that represented Liberty, the red tree represented Perfect Union and the white tree represented Justice. 

   Many children and parents participated with us by marching in the parade. They hand out candy with our website to the public that was in the parade. We had a great time with the children and the parents, they were really helpful and cooperative by working together as one whole family.

   The children were really enthusiastic and cheerful during the parade. The younger kids were sitting on the float with the trees that were representing part of the United States Constitution.

  One of our staff, Beatrice Puebla was the coordinator of this great float. She was in the float supervising the children that were sitting there and making sure that everything was going well.
  Here we have our children and some of our staff in front of the float happy and excited to be part of the parade. It was a great time to share not only with our kids, parents, but also with the community in general. It was the perfect time for the community to know about the Apopka Family Learning Center and our mission.

Holiday Play and Party with Darden Restaurants, Inc.



The Apopka Family Learning Center hosted a Holiday Party with the help of the Darden Restaurants. Beatrice Puebla organized and directed a Christmas Play that was acted by some of our students. The play was called The Journey. The Journey was about birth of Jesus Christ. The children were dressed like Mary, Joseph and the Angel.









One of our Kids in Motion teachers, Miss Laura Rodriguez was the person who organized the chorus that was part of the play. They were all dressed up in white and with a Christmas hat. They were really excited and happy to sing in front on their parents and all the people that attended the party.


Here is our CEO, Ellen O'Connor, Mylitza Woodson, and some of our children with representatives from Darden Restaurants!!

  Thanks to the Darden Restaurants, our children and parents were really happy and thankful because not only the children that attend to the Apopka Family Learning Center received a gift, but also their siblings had the opportunity of getting a Christmas gift too. Also, thanks to St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church, every family left with a bag of food and a Publix gift card.  One of our classrooms was assigned as the room where the families and their children would go and get their gifts. Our teachers helped find students gifts and gave them to one of the Darden Restaurants people so they could hand the gifts to the children. The children of Frankie Delgado were involved in the party by giving candy and bracelets to the children in their way out. The Apopka Family Learning Center is really thankful to the Darden Restaurants for donating the gifts for our children.




                                                            THANK YOU DARDEN RESTAURANTS!!!                  

Friday, December 7, 2012

We Love St. Margaret Mary School!

St. Margaret Mary Catholic School has come to visit and mentor the students at the Apopka Family Learning Center for years.  December 6th was an especially wonderful treat as they came bringing an ice cream sundae bar, gifts and food for our families!


Students carried in 70 bags full of food with gift cards purchased from Publix for our families to have this holiday season.  

Our students then lined up and were served ice cream sundaes by the students from St. Margaret Mary!  Yum!

While students enjoyed their ice cream, a lovely holiday jazz concert was provided by a former student from St. Margaret Mary who asked to come back to play for the students.  Everyone loved the concert and the perfect Florida winter weather that allowed it to happen.

Following the show, students opened gifts from the school for the learning center.  

We were thrilled to find canvases, paints, clay, glitter, and more art supplies that will be put to good use.

Thank you St. Margaret Mary!  We are blessed to have you in our lives.


Saturday, December 1, 2012

21st Century Learning


We are on our way at the Apopka Family Learning Center to being a model in 21st Century Learning.  

Check out our newly designed website and updated logo.


We don't just educate children.  We educate the whole family at the The Apopka Family Learning Center.  The Kids in Motion After-School Program and our upcoming summer program, Peace, Art and Literacy, take a holistic approach to educating children. Intervention strategies and techniques are guided by the latest neuroscience.  The children who attend Kids in Motion live at or below the poverty level.  Parents of children in Kids in Motion attend a class of their choice: English, Financial Literacy, Parenting, or Family Literacy.   Check out our YouTube Video to learn more about our little center's big impact.



Apopka Family Learning Center Online...

We are also building a social media presence to connect with others to share our success stories, achievement and learn from the success and achievement of others.  

You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube and even Pinterest!


Like us on Facebook to keep up with our day-to-day happenings and courses.




Follow @aflcenter on Twitter and connect worldwide.

Check out our Pinterest Boards for #pinspiration on topics like Peace, Family Literacy, Art,  Fundraising and more.

Thanks to Westside Tech, we will soon be equipped throughout our building with wireless. Now, we could really use some technology for academic enrichment in Kids in Motion.


Microsoft Surface Tablets would be used creatively.



Or  iPads  would be so AWESOME and put to good use for enrichment.
  

We have some seriously creative energy at this center that would make amazing use of either one of these tools that our students would otherwise probably not experience.  

And so we say please Twitterverse, do your magic as we cross our fingers and toes!

Apopka Family Learning Center 

800 South Hawthorne Ave. 

Apopka, FL 32703